Ep 55 - Wu Ming-yi and The Man with the Compound Eyes with Cara Healey

The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast

‘Only if you go to places nobody’s ever been can you see the colours nobody’s ever seen’

[ this is episode 3 of our Taiwan Season ]

In the fifty fifth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are meeting The Man with the Compound Eyes (复眼人 / Fùyǎn Rén). Brace yourself for the impact of an ecological, apocalyptic, and internationalist vortex of literary weirdness. Joining me to weather this storm at the limits of anthropoid cognition is Sinophone-sci-fi-studier Cara Healey.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• The Secret Talker by Geling Yan
• Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader By Howard Chiang
• The Rainbow of Time by Jimmy Liao

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// WORDS OF THE DAY //

(涡流 - wōliú - vortex, whirlpool)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
• the Indigenous people of Taiwan
• David Mitchell and impending doom
• The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction

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